Much hype has surrounded the first ever human powered search engine. A search engine the creator claimed that could take on the search engine giant Google. However, it proved to be quite a letdown. Search Wikia, a search engine developed by Wikia Inc., was launched in the alpha state last January 7. The uniqueness of [...]
The power of images in making a sale has been well known in traditional marketing for a long time. This becomes even more important online when there’s no physical product for users to handle. The images on your website alone have to work even harder to convey the true look and feel of your product.
Here’s one for all the Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python (+Django) and ASP/.net web developers. There are a lot of myths about PHP, often developing from the language’s early beginnings, or simply by misconceptions perpetuated by areas of the enormous user base. Sure, it isn’t perfect. It has its problems; from professionalism to consistency and [...]
When it comes to PHP, there are a lot of options for frameworks. Some focus on simplifying your application code, while others improve your application portability, and others still simply help you code quicker. Today I’ll introduce you to CodeIgniter, a framework that does all three. CodeIgniter is an MVC application framework for PHP that gives you a consistent structure for your application, takes care of common tasks and helps you implement complex functionality with minimal effort.
While working with FQL I suddenly found a bug in one of our applications. Sometime you need to display how many of your friends added this application to their facebook profile. To do that you can execute the following query via the available REST library for PHP developers. SELECT uid FROM user WHERE has_added_app = [...]
Some of you may be familiar with Paul Reinheimer’s funcaday.com. Every day, the site lists a new PHP function, including the function prototype, description, uses and further notes. On Valentine’s Day this year, they chose a rather amusing parody function. Read on to have some fun with PHP and GD. Some of you may …
In my article “Making a seamless parchment background,” I showed you how to use Photoshop’s offset filter to modify a parchment paper image to create a tiling background for a web page. The same techniques are used in this tutorial, but you’ll see how I handle a photo with an irregular image.
Mod_rewrite is a very important library to enable search engine friendly URLs in apache web server. Almost every framework takes advantage of this mod to make user experience more colorful while browsing a page. If you are not sure what is a search engine friendly URL, have a look at the following examples 1. http://your_domain/yourpage.php?param1=list¶m2=12 [...]
When the popularity of blogs was on the rise, it catered mostly to journalists, political bloggers, and young adults. However, a new trend is emerging. Business blogs are currently seen as an effective way to boost sales and increase promotion, and there are several reasons why. Blogs are easier to maintain than a regular …
When it comes to building web applications in PHP, performance isn’t typically a major concern. Features, usability and any business concerns are considered a greater priority, as they can be better demonstrated and visualised. Performance graphs don’t make the boss’s day. So, why should you as a PHP developer, worry about performance? Quite a few reasons, in fact…
